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In 2015, GOPAC GTF PO started a project called “Strengthening the Role of Parliamentarians
in Monitoring the Implementation of SDGs,” in cooperation with our partners – the UN
Development Program (UNDP), and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).

Through this project, we are developing a Parliamentary Handbook on SDGs as guidance for
Parliamentarians to successfully implement the SDGs, especially by monitoring the effectiveness
of any development assistance.This handbook is designed to be an easy-to-use resource, which
lists good practices and tools from around the world that can be adapted as needed, depending
on the national context.

The Handbook has been previously launched during the World Bank and IMF Global
Parliamentary Conference in April 2017. It was also piloted through a regional workshop
in Jakarta last year, with participants ranging from Members of Parliament from South and
Southeast Asia.

The handbook itself has been already available for download, for free, at GOPAC as well as the
UNDP websites.

The next target is to develop a national handbook as well as action plans on SDGs, with a view
to ensure that no corruption can breed in the national implementation of SDGs.

As a final message, I would like to reiterate that Parliamentary oversight can do much to reduce
or weaken opportunities for corruption. And I hope today discussion could be a momentum for
Parliamentarians to gather, evaluate, and maximizing their role in supporting parliamentary
oversight.

I encourage all of you present here to make use of the parliamentary handbook on SDGs and to
successfully contribute to the national implementation of the SDGs.

Selected Speeches of the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia I 239